Riesling, G Max, 2008

Served blind after the cool 2004 vintage, Keller's 2008 Riesling G-Max shows a clear, fresh, complex and still very young bouquet of ripe fruit and herbal notes. Rich, spicy and enormously juicy on the palate, this is a classic, dense and fruit-intensive wine, yet it is a rather lean and firmly structured Riesling classic with fleshy fruit and pleasant astringency on the finish. This is a very excellent Riesling from a cool, rather damp and humid year with a very high yield, in which the really great wines were naturally in short supply. However, the G-Max can certainly lay claim to being a reference wine of the vintage. Tasted at Steinheuer's Restaurant Zur Alten Post, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in January 2024.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2050

date of review 03/2024